Library Guides: Dance & Theatre Library Guide: Online Scripts, Video, & Audio

Scripts Online

DRAMA Online This link opens in a new window
Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. Also offers expert guidance in the form of scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis and contextual information.
Twentieth Century North American Drama This link opens in a new window
Contains plays by 170 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro This link opens in a new window
Over 800 Spanish dramatic works in full text. Covers 1500-1700.
American Drama, 1714-1915 This link opens in a new window
Contains over 1,500 dramatic works from the early 18th - early 20th century. Includes plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented.
Black Drama: Third Edition This link opens in a new window
Full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.
North American Indian Drama This link opens in a new window
Contains plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Asian American Drama This link opens in a new window
Full text plays together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro This link opens in a new window
Over 800 Spanish dramatic works in full text. Covers 1500-1700.

Streaming Video & Audio

Dance Online: Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
Digital Theatre + This link opens in a new window
Includes streaming contemporary dance productions.
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Multimedia collection that covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.
BroadwayHD Collection This link opens in a new window
The mission of BroadwayHD is to promote and preserve live theatre, extending the reach of Broadway and Broadway-caliber shows to anyone, anywhere. BroadwayHD captures and transports the magic of performance from the stage to your screen. As part of the Tulane University subscription, there are twenty plays currently available via BroadwayHD.

American Folk/Popular

Music Online: American Song This link opens in a new window
Includes songs by and about Native Americans, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys.

John and Alan Lomax in Louisiana, 1934
This site is a digital resource for the study of the 1934 John and Alan Lomax trip to lower Louisiana, where they recorded a diverse array of songs in English and in Louisiana French.
National Jukebox
Provides access to historical recordings housed in the Library of Congress. Includes band music, classical, vocal, rag, jazz, and more.

Classical

Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive streaming audio collection of classical music.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz, and world music labels.

Jazz

Music Online: Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new window
The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Naxos Music Library: Jazz This link opens in a new window
Offers thousands of tracks of jazz from over 2,300 albums representing hundreds of jazz artists. Comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artists.

International

Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new window
Sounds of all regions from every continent to include genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
A collection of sound files of the world's musical and aural traditions, based on the collection of Folkways Records.

British Library of Sounds
Listen to recordings from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.

Digital Theatre + This link opens in a new window
Includes streaming video of contemporary theatre productions as well as scripts, interviews, and more.
Stage on Screen This link opens in a new window
A selection of works via Drama Online, the resource includes stage productions of The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Volpone by Ben Jonson. Also includes cast & crew interviews, costume designs, productions stills, study guides, and background on the play & production.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains over 270 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors, and directors.
BroadwayHD Collection This link opens in a new window
The mission of BroadwayHD is to promote and preserve live theatre, extending the reach of Broadway and Broadway-caliber shows to anyone, anywhere. BroadwayHD captures and transports the magic of performance from the stage to your screen. As part of the Tulane University subscription, there are twenty plays currently available via BroadwayHD.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection This link opens in a new window
More than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company.